Cawdor Done At Last

Or, to be more accurate, all the Cawdor stuff I own is finished now. I don't actually have all the Cawdor stuff Games Workshop makes, there's a couple more special characters and some Ash Wastes stuff they do as well that, I expect, at some point, I might pick up. Assuming I can paint another 290-odd models before July. 

The Headsman (a special Hired Gun) and a Stig-Shambler. Apparently the heavy stubber is a bad choice, but I preferred the look to the heavy flamer, so I went for that when I made it

I like how filthy and dirty the wash makes them look

Sadly the gunner slightly broke; if you look at some older photos there's another candle on a stick behind her head, but it snapped. Ah well

Despite large areas of cloth that could probably do with a bit of highlighting, I decided to leave it because it looks much grimier than otherwise

I also wrote up the handwritten list that catalogues my Pile of Opportunity. So far I'm at 1,590 (it was 1,592 until I finished these two models!) and I still have to count my AK47 Republic stuff. Should only take about 795 days' of work to get through, hardly any time at all really if you ask me.

Painting Points:
Today: 2
This Week: 9
2025: 9

Random Assortment

Today I painted one mini from undercoat to completion, and finished off the bases of some others for some nice quick wins. I also got to the point where I've very nearly counted almost every unpainted miniature I have: I just need to dig out my 15mm AK47 Republic file boxes and see what's left to do there. I know there was a fair chunk of stuff back when I was last working on them some... errr... twenty years ago. 

In the meantime, here's what I did today:

Spiders! These are from the Warcry spider cult warband, but I've repurposed them for random Necromunda critters

A Ral Partha mini, and a companion to the executioner and headsman's block I did the other day. She represents the 15th and last Pain Token for my Dark Eldar

The dark brown highlights on her hair didn't come out in this photo very well, sadly, but hey ho

This is Porcelain, a D&D Warforged character I drew up for a game a while ago. The mini is a 3D print from... somewhere? R, my friend, who currently has my 3D printer, printed her off a while ago

She might be all curves but she's magic-powered metal and deadly with it

I particularly like how the 'skin' came out - I used a lot of different tones and the end result is very nice

Then I actually put some more paint on the Cawdor models! No, really, look:

They're about 2/3 finished now I reckon

That's the metallics all done, and I'm on to the highlighting-post-Agrax Earthshade and details stage. Oh, and the skin, I guess. I should be able to get them finished tomorrow, which cleans my painting desk for something new. Maybe those Royalist Quar at last...?

Painting Points:
Today: 5
This Week: 7
2025: 7

The Sheen Of Feathers

Yesterday I talked about how I just had the Cawdor Headsman and Stig-Shambler to do, and then I mentioned the Sheen Birds too. Well, today I painted the Sheen Birds and made a start on the Headsman and Stig-Shambler, so I'm quite chuffed with that. A couple of days' left in the year and I might even get the people done as well as the cybernetic bird-zombies!

I really like these dark reflections of wildlife and what they say about the Imperium

The Cawdor gangers see them as sent from the Emperor as manifestations of His will, so I named them appropriately

And with the Sheen Birds done my pile of mini-critters has, for the moment, run out. I have some giant spiders somewhere though...

I'm very glad I wrote down how I painted my Cawdor gangers though. 

Painting Points:
Today: 3
This Week: 31
2024: 230 (381)

Rats With Hats

If you can call candles hats, that is.

I spent today's painting time finishing off all the various rats and bits and pieces that were on my painting tray - most notably the explosives objective marker and a toolbox that I found lying around which was a nice quick paintjob:

Bomb rats! My favourite is the one presenting the petrol bomb with the pin in its mouth

I didn't bother naming them because I figured the Cawdor gangers probably wouldn't either

Generic giant rats painted to look like old pet rats P and I used to have

And their names!

These both painted up very quickly and will make a nice objective marker and bit of scatter terrain

The toolbox is red because my Dad has one just like that which is red

And that was it for today! I'm probably going to make a start on the Cawdor Headsman and Stig-Shambler next, which, once done, will mean I only need to do the Sheen Birds and then all the House Cawdor stuff I have will be complete.

Painting Points:
Today: 10
This Week: 28
2024: 227 (378)

More Small Creatures...

...and one's blue!

A while ago I went looking for all the various Escher miniatures I had so that I could work out what I could put into my gang for the campaign I played in a while back. Whilst doing that, I realised I couldn't find the Caryatid I knew I had - and eventually decided it must have fallen on the floor and vanished at some point. Then, yesterday, when I began a mad plan to catalogue all of my Pile of Opportunity (more on this in another post) I found the Caryatid!

They're so grumpy!

Drybrushing really helped the sculpted details become visible

This was a super quick paint job, mostly a wash and drybrushing with some painted details like the bangles, collar, feathers and hair. But now there's a Caryatid that may or may not see the table at some point. 

In addition to Li'l Blue, I did some work on my Cawdor Bomb Rats:

They're cute, they're silly, they'll blow you up

 These critters are very much being painted as Generic Rats because, well, they are. I've also started to paint up the Genestealer Cult Saboteur's bomb marker, which will probably end up being a generic objective marker in Necromunda games. The three Giant Rats at the back are going to be painted like more of my old pet rats, although which ones I haven't yet decided.

Still, a pretty successful day of painting, and sets me up nicely to get the Bomb Rats all done tomorrow.

Painting Points:
Today: 1
This Week: 18
2024: 217 (368)